squit

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/skwɪt/

Definition of squit

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, derogatory, informal)A person of low status.
    “Not a favourite son, of course — Lord, no! — more a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes.”
    “'It isn't so funny when it's the other way round, is it?' I snarl, before adding, 'You geeky little squit,' for good measure.”
    “I couldn't believe my ears: at Roedean a new girl spent at least a term having it drummed into her what an insignificant little squit she was; and here were these girls being welcoming!”
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noun

  1. (countable, derogatory, informal)A person of low status.
    “Not a favourite son, of course — Lord, no! — more a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes.”
    “'It isn't so funny when it's the other way round, is it?' I snarl, before adding, 'You geeky little squit,' for good measure.”
    “I couldn't believe my ears: at Roedean a new girl spent at least a term having it drummed into her what an insignificant little squit she was; and here were these girls being welcoming!”
  2. (Norfolk, uncountable)Nonsense; amusing stories.
    “'Cor blast, Tovell, you don't half talk some squit at times!' exclaimed Ted Carter. ‘Squit! It's the gospel truth.[…]’”
    “In 1985, asked by the writer Richard Whittington-Egan if he believed in this apparition, an old local man replied that it was ‘a load of old squit.’”
  3. (onomatopoeic)A light squishing or splattering sound.
    “"Mr. Kuttner, you know I'm the best in this business, don't you?" he said, swatting at a mosquito. It went squit and left a smear of blood on his cheek.”
    “She turned away and stalked back through the lounge, her running shoes making a squit-squit-squit sound on the tiles, punctuated by the slam of the front door.”

verb

  1. (Internet, transitive)To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.
    “[…] these problems solved themselves atfter^([sic]) some 10 minutes or so, without an ircop interferring^([sic]) into channel affairs by squitting his/her server to gain chanop status.”
    “Today, I was awakened by a call from one of my IRC ops, telling me that my net had been 'taken over'. An ircop had squitted all the servers, and had a script that kept them disconnected from the net.”

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Etymology

Possibly related to squirt (“small child”); from 19th c.

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